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Rooftop
Solar Panels.
Stacey Baumgarn let a tour of the rooftop solar panels for the Advisory Board.
The panels were installed on the roof of the Courthouse Office Building this
year and became operational in June. The system includes 138 panels in two
banks and is designed to produce 39,000 KWh per year. That power production is
equivalent to 60,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions from traditional fossil
fuel production. The project funding includes Federal grant monies from two
grant programs (EECBG & RDSI).

Energy
Conservation Update.
Stacey Baumgarn provided an update on the status of energy related projects that
the County is working on through the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block
Grant Program. Eight projects are included in the grant:

1.
The solar
rooftop panels described above.

2.
Computer
server virtualization completed in early 2010.

3.
Adoption of a
voluntary green building code (in coordination with the City of Fort Collins).

4.
A greenhouse
gas emissions inventory for County programs and buildings (under contract with
the Brendle Group).

5.
Purchase of a
Portfolio Manager software tool to allow benchmark of energy use in County
buildings

8.
Development
and approval of an Energy Policy and related Energy Action Plan (to be
completed by the end of 2010).

Environmental
Stewardship Awards:
The EAB Stewardship Awards Committee met on September 29 to consider initial
recommendations for this year’s stewardship award nominations. Fourteen
nominations for twelve potential recipients were received this year. Committee
members Jarrett Tishmack, Jennifer Lee and Ryan McShane led a discussion with
the full EAB about all the nominations. At the conclusion of the discussion,
the consensus of the members present was to recommend a top tier of two
nominations, and a middle tier of three for consideration by the County
Commissioners. Doug Ryan will meet with the Commissioners to outline the EAB
recommendations. Mr. Ryan noted that as in the past all 14 nominations will be
presented to the Commissioners.

EAB
Issue Index:

Doug
Ryan will update the Issue Index related to the topics discussed at the meeting.